Button loop



Dec; 20, 1932.; J DQMKEE 1,891,223

BUTTON LooP Filed May a, 19:51

i atentecl Dec. 29, 1932 rserzzs ATENT @FFHQE JOHN" H. DOIVEKEE, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE WIRE NOVELTY MANUFACTURENG COMPANY, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF COIG'NECTECUT BUTTON LOOP Application filed May 6,

This invention relates to button loops and more particularly to that class of button loops that provides for the lateral expansion of spring arms the extremities of which have some connection permitting their relative movement.

The objects of the invention are to provide an all-wire expansible button loop of unusual strength and ease of action; to provide an all-wire expansible button loop oi such construction that it can be made upon the type of machine commonly employed for making buckles; and to provide the wire extremities of all-wire expansible button loop with a novel sliding connection which includes a depressed seat for the shank of a button.

With these and other objects in view as may become apparent from the within disclosures,

the invention consists not only of the particular form herein pointed out and illustrated in the drawing, but readily admits of certain modifications within the scope or what hereinafter may be claimed.

The applicant is aware that all-wire pansible button loops are not new in the art; for unless the button loop is made out of fiat stock the wire connections are difiicult to confine within the plane of the device. The invention about to be described presents an improvement which enables the use of wire of round cross-section in the construction of an all-wire button loop almost strictly confined to the one plane.

The character of the invention may be best understood by the reference to one illustrative device embodying the invention and illustrated by the figures in the accompanying drawing in which the Figure 1 is an upright elevation oi the device in a normal condition; the Figure 2 is a cross-section on the line 2-2 of the previous figure; and the Figure 3 is an upright elevation of the device in an expanded condition.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, the device as illustrated is made from a single piece of wire of which a middle portion is formed to provide the suspension loop 1 having the horizontal bar 2 around which a strap (not illustrated) may be looped that the device may be suspended from a looped 1931. Serial N0. 535,417.

the button retaining loop 6 the wire extremities 8 and 9 are bent horizontally and overlapped in the plane of the button loop in spaced parallel relation, one to the other, ex-

epting that the wireextremity occupying the inner position, as for instance the wire extremity 8, is provided with the depressed seat portion 10, an exterior portion of which rests upon the outer wire extremity, as for instance the wire extremity 9. The free end of the inner positioned wire extremity 8 is bent outwardly at substantially right angles and slightly flattened and bent loosely around the outer wire extremity 9 to provide the support 11 in the same manner familiarly employed in the pivotal assembly of prong buckle parts, and the free end of the outer wire extremity 9 normally remains free and is bent inwardly to provide the one larged terminal 12 protectingly facing an exterior portion of the inner wireextremity 8 and thus providing a stop for engagement with a shoulder 8, formed upon the exterior of the depressed seat 10 upon the full expansion of the device.

In operation, the receiving loop 5 is clipped over the head of a button or" which the shank S may rest upon the intermediate contract ed portion '4' of the button loop, as illustrated in full line by the Figure l. A su'dicient upward pull upon the device thus connected with a button causes the shank S to bear upon and expand the intermediate normally contracted portion 7 to permit the passage of the shank S therethrough, he Figure 3 illustrating the shank S within the expanded intermediate normally contracted portion 7 and the outer wire extremity 9 in a position relative to the wire extremity 8, to which it has slidingly moved through the looped sup- I port 11. lhe resiliency of the wire, providing tension to the spring arms 3 and A to normally maintain the intermediate contracted portion 7, is relied upon to restore the normal relative positions of the spring arms 3 and 4 after the shank S has passed into the retaining, loop 6 and assumed the position illustrated in dotted line by the Figure 1. The seating of the shank S within the depressed seat lQ'Of the inner wire extremity 8 prevents such shifting of the shank S against either side portion of the retaining loop 6 as would have a tendency to spread apart the spring arms 3 and l and thus defeat the purpose of the button loop to retain the shank S within the retaining loop 6. The shank S thus seated within the depressed seat 10 distributes all strain, occasioned by the upward pulling of the device, equally between the wire extremities 8 and 9 through the medium of the looped support 11.

I claim 1. A button loop comprising a piece of wire formed to include a pair of spring arms providing axially associated loops having an intermediate contracted portion, the wire extremities being overlapped and one overlapped extremity providing a depressed seat for the shank of a button and having a free end bent and loosely looped around the other overlapped extremity the latter extremity being provided with an enlargement, the enlarged extremity engaging a shoulder formed upon the exterior surface of the depressed portion for limiting the relative sliding movement of the two extremities.

2. A button loop comprising a piece of wire formed to include a pair of spring arms providing axially associated loops having an intermediate contracted portion, the wire extremities being overlapped in the plane of the loops and one overlapped extremity providing a depressed seat for the shank of a button and having a free end bent and loose- 1y looped around the other overlapped extremity the latter extremity being provided with an enlargement, the enlarged extremity engaging a shoulder formed upon the exterior surface of the depressed portion for limiting the relative sliding movement of the two extremities.

3. A button loop comprising a piece of Wire formed to include a pair of spring arms providing axially associated loops having an intermediate contracted portion, the wire extremities being overlapped in the plane of the loops and one overlapped extremity providing a depressed seat for the shank of a button and having a flattened free end bent and loosely looped around the other overlapped extremity the latter extremity being provided with an enlargement, the enlarged extremity engaging a shoulder formed upon the ex terior surface of the depressed portion for limiting the relative sliding movement of the two extremities.

4. A button loop comprising a piece of wire of which a middle portion is bent to provide a suspension loop, and the remaining wire portions being formed to include a pair of spring arms providing axially associated button-receiving and button-retaining loops havthe enlargement.

JOHN H. DOMKEE. 

